ECAC Announces Men's Basketball Officials Clinic
PLYMOUTH, N.H. – The Eastern College Athletic Conference
(ECAC) in cooperation with the Collegiate Basketball Officials
Association (CBOA) will sponsor the fifth annual men’s
basketball officials instructional clinic in Plymouth, New
Hampshire on July 20-22. Plymouth State University will serve
as host in conjunction with the Plymouth State Men’s
Basketball “King of the Mountain” team camp.
Registrations are still being accepted to either session I or
session II.
The clinic directors are CBOA President Ron Martel, ECAC
Officiating Coordinator Tom O’Connor and former ECAC
official, Bob Huber. Last year, the camp attracted over 50
basketball officials, all of whom were trying to improve their
on-court performance and ultimately become a certified ECAC college
basketball official.
“Our clinic staff does a terrific job each year of providing
top-quality instruction in how to improve your officiating
performance, the crew working as a team, and the successful
mechanics/techniques employed by crews working the three-person
system” said Steve Bamford, ECAC Senior Associate
Commissioner.
The camp and clinic are designed to offer officials instruction
related to the mechanics of collegiate men’s basketball
officiating with an emphasis on three-person mechanics. In
addition, the sessions are geared towards those officials who have
an interest in becoming an ECAC and CBOA certified men’s
college basketball official. Instruction at the clinic is
provided by some of the top ECAC/CBOA Division I, II and III
college officials.
The three-day clinic program offers a mixture of classroom
instruction and on-court evaluation. Each official will leave
the camp with a personal video with a clinician’s voice-over
critique of his/her performance in game action.
The ECAC is the nation’s largest athletic and the only
multi-divisional conference with 320 Divisions I, II, and III
colleges and universities from Maine to North Carolina and westerly
to Illinois. Established in 1938, the ECAC, a non-profit service
organization, sponsors 98 championships in 37 men’s and
women’s sports, assigns more than 5,100 officials in 14
sports, administers 10 affiliate sports organizations and seven
playing leagues and recognizes more than 4,000 student-athletes in
20 sports through the public relations arm of the conference. The
ECAC serves as the primary conference for select members in the
sports of men’s and women’s ice hockey, men’s
lacrosse, men’s gymnastics, wrestling, fencing and rowing.
